Engineers are cold fish

Did I say hiatus? Sorry, sorry, just couldn’t resist this one, what with three engineers in what I might call my close circle of misfits:

Engineers are cold and dead inside, research shows

Unable to care or love, claims Swedish trick-cyclist

A study carried out by psychology researchers in Sweden has shown that people who go into engineering are less caring and empathetic than those who enter professions such as medicine.

Now you have to admit, that is just beautiful. But what do some engineers have to say about that?

Chuckles

Many suggest that they breed like sergeants and microbes, by fission.

Haiku

This article runs counter to the popular belief that politicians are bred from accountants or lawyers: it would appear that engineers are better suited to becoming politicians.

Well, well, well.

I’m one of those unfortunates who has always been stuck with engineers as mates and even married one at one point. Now what did I do wrong in life to deserve that? It’s frustrating – you can’t insult them, you can’t wind them up. They just look at you then hit you.

They’re often as opinionated as I am. There are two ways to get under their skin though – emotion and religion. Usually does the trick. You would probably be asking why would you want to wind up an engineer?

Well, sientifik eksperiment of course – to see what it takes to move an immovable object. LOL.